Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
02/02/1981
Date of Amendment
24/01/2003
Name of Property
Bryn Disgwylfa
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Location
On the street-line.
History
Second-half C18 town house, the home of Thomas Jones, the notable Calvinistic Methodist theologian and author (1756-1820).
Exterior
Large 3-storey town house of roughcast over rubble and brick construction, with stucco quoins, architraves and sill-courses (all of c1900). Slate roof with simple brick end chimneys. Symmetrical 3-bay facade with central entrance, with an open canopy porch carried on slim cast iron columns; 4-panel door with 3-pane rectangular overlight. Flush 12-pane modern windows (imitating sashes) to the ground and first floors, and similar 6-pane window to the top floor R; blind 12-pane casement to the L. All have cambered heads with lugged stucco architraves and projecting sills and keystones. Partial (later) outshut to the rear. To the L of the entrance is a modern plaque recording the fact that Thomas Jones (1756-1820) lived here.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a late C18 town house, the home of Thomas Jones, the notable Methodist minister.
Group value with nos 11-37 Beacon''''s Hill.
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